Verizon Makes It Pricer to Break Contracts
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Verizon feeling that T-mo heat that is coming
Verizon most likely doing this because they know T-mo is about to release initial markets of Band 12 spectrum that they bought from Big Red. So, once that happens soon and that improves T-mo's coverage in dense buildings and outside of major city limits then with T-mo's ETF payoff Verizon could see a decent amount of people jump ship. So, in this instance this is most likely why we see this change.
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JellzNov 14, 2014, 5:57 PM
That doesn't make sense because T-Mobile will pay off ETFs of up to $350. The proper response would've been to raise the ETF over $350 or double down on their EDGE options... Which they actually made less appealing, recently.
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I have to agree. When T-Mobile announced the ETF payoffs Sprint rolled out Framily with Easy Pay (which was a better deal long term then Sprint One Up) and AT&T made Next more appealing soon after (and both allowed people to upgrade early to finance a new phone). Verizon just ignored the problem.
Although it may not be a problem for Verizon. At least in their eyes.
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